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Faced with tumultuous economic times and rapid technological change, staying ahead in your career depends on continual learning - a lifelong mastery of new ideas, subjects and skills. If you want to accomplish more and stand apart from everyone else, you need to become an ultralearner. Scott Young incorporates the latest research about the most effective learning methods and the stories of other ultralearners like himself - among them Ben Franklin, Judit Polgar and Richard Feynman, as well as a host of others....

Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we are all susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes can make us poor and unhealthy. We often make bad decisions about education, personal finance, health care, family, and the environment.

ラヴクラフト作品に幾度か登場するランドルフ・カーター。この『ランドルフ・カーターの証言』が初めての登場となる。ラヴクラフト得意の怪奇物であり、短い作品であるが、得体の知れない禍々しい不気味さに満ち溢れている。 夢の旅人ランドルフ・カーターは、その人生において幾度となく奇怪なもの、摩訶不思議な出来事に遭遇する。この時もカーターは、友人ハーリィ・ウォーレンと出かけた先で、とんでもない事態に陥り、そのため法廷で証言を強いられることとなる。 深夜の人知れぬ墓地でいったい何が起こったのか…!?

Lawyers. Accountants. Software Engineers. That what Mom and Dad encouraged us to become. They were wrong. Gone is the age of "left-brain" dominance. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers - creative and emphatic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

Today, leading scientists and doctors in the field of regenerative medicine are developing diagnostic tools and safe and effective therapies that can free you from fear. In this book, Tony Robbins, the world’s number one life and business strategist who has coached more than 50 million people, brings you more than 100 of the world’s top medical minds and the latest research, inspiring comeback stories and amazing advancements in precision medicine that you can apply today to help extend the length and quality of your life.

The deep-seated origins and wide-reaching lessons of ancient myths built the foundation for our modern legacies. Explore the mythologies of Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Learn what makes these stories so important, distinctive, and able to withstand the test of time. Discover how, despite geographical implausibilities, many myths from across the oceans share themes, morals, and archetypes.

そこに住んだ多くの人が次々と奇妙な死を遂げている“忌まわしの館” 幼い頃からずっと気になっていた私は、大人になったとき叔父からその館にまつわる詳しい歴史を聞き、さらに興味を持った私は、謎の解明のために調査に乗りだすことにした。やがて私は叔父とふたりでその館の地下室に入り、そこで……!?呪われた家には、“何か”が棲んでいる!?現実と幻想が交錯するラヴクラフト独特の世界観から抜け出せなくなる恐怖と怪奇の傑作!

あらすじ 世の中のあらゆることに退屈した若者ふたりは、刺激を得るために墓荒らしをするようになった。悪事の限りを尽くすふたりは、ある墓地の死体から、翡翠の魔よけ奪い取り持ち帰る。しかしそれ以降ふたりは得体の知れない恐怖におびやかされることになる。どこからともなく聞こえるようになったかすかな“遠吠え”。やがて一人が、見えない何者かによって食い殺されてしまう…。

僕は今、ふるさとのはるか彼方にいて、東の海に心奪われている。黄昏のなか波は岩に砕け、岩は丘に続き、そこにはひょろりとした柳が生い茂り、空は曇りなく、夜の一番星が輝いている。僕は一族の偉い人に呼ばれ、古くから続く冬至の儀式に参加することになった。一度も行ったことのない一族の故郷の港町キングスポートを訪れると、町の中央に山があり、その頂には教会があった。僕は夜、大勢の人々に混じって、その教会へ向かう……。(C)PanRolling

US psychologist Abraham Maslow’s A Theory of Human Motivation is a classic of psychological research that helped change the field for good. Like many field-changing thinkers, Maslow was not just a talented researcher, he was also a creative thinker - able to see things from a new perspective and show them in a different light. He studied what he called exemplary people such as Albert Einstein, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Frederick Douglass rather than mentally ill or neurotic people.

親友デニス・バリィが、故郷アイルランドの田舎に城を買って、アメリカから移り住んだ。壊れかけていた城を修繕し、周囲の目障りな湿地も干拓するという。近隣の農夫たちは反対し、そんなことをすれば呪われると叫ぶ。私も呼ばれて城へ遊びに行くことになったが……。(C)Pan Rolling

Known as ‘The Father of Science Fiction’, Herbert George Wells’ writing career spanned over 60 years. He was a writer of novels, short stories, nonfiction books and articles. As a young man, Wells won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in London, sparking his infamous vocation as a science fiction writer. Introduced by film director and H. G. Wells fanboy Eli Roth, this collection features unabridged recordings of the novels performed by Hugh Bonneville, Jason Isaacs, Sophie Okonedo, David Tennant and Alexander Vlahos.

「私はダニエル・アプトン。親友エドワード・ダービィの死について、真実を語ろう。私たちふたりのあいだには、様々のことが起こり、確かに私は親友の頭に六発の弾丸を撃ち込んだ。だがそれでも私はこの告白によって、彼を殺したのは私でないことを示したい。」H・P・ラヴクラフトが源流を作った「クトゥルー神話」の一部と見なされる短編。(C)PanRolling

私が大学生であったとき、それはフランスのとある街での出来事。下宿の天井の向こうから、エーリッヒ・ツァンの奏でる不思議な調べを聴いた。やがて私は彼の部屋に入ることになる。今でも思い出すがもう見つからない。私にとって何だったのだろうか。あの時期は、あの街は、あの部屋は、そしてあの調べは…。 人間心理の奥深くに、何とも説明不可能な感覚を与えるラヴクラフトの狂騒の旋律をお楽しみください。

In my dreams, I never escaped the Oregon woods. Life after death isn't easy to accept, especially when I still feel like a ghost. Now, I live deep in the mountains of Montana—the paradigm of beauty. But they are also the home of horrors. Horrors that I only unleash at night. When my pigs are allowed to feast.

In an Audible Exclusive performance, Holliday Grainger lends her voice to a new unabridged recording of Lady Chatterley's Lover, a novel that was banned until 1960 and is now considered to be one of the most renowned love stories of all time. This production features an exclusive introduction written and narrated by Fern Riddell, a cultural historian who specialises in sex in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

男はある古書店で見つけた不思議な本を盗み、そこに書かれた儀式を実行したがためにこの世ならぬ世界をさまようことにある。そして出会う宇宙的恐怖の数々。

From the acclaimed number-one New York Times best-selling author of Make Your Bed - a short, inspirational book about the qualities of true everyday heroes.

Linguistics falls in the gap between arts and science, on the edges of which the most fascinating discoveries and the most important problems are found. Rather than following the conventional organization of many contemporary introductions to the subject, the author of this stimulating guide begins his discussion with the oldest, "arts" end of the subject and moves chronologically through to the newest research - the "science" aspects.

Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans - predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth - and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and our world.